District 3 voters have numerous opportunities to meet their candidates in the coming several days. Today at the NSU Williams Library, the regular Wednesday Noon Forum…
Tag: openness
Remember the site of Dakota Access pipeline security’s dog and pepper spray attacks on trespassing protestors on September 3? The owner of that land, David Meyer, has…
In his debate with Rick Knobe on Amendment V Thursday evening, aspiring GOP lawyer Will Mortenson said the open nonpartisan primary proposal is a rare effort to take…
Ah, so now we have the real reason the Koch brothers are trying to defeat Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act. It’s not so much the “Democracy Credits” that…
In the race for District 3 Senate, which candidate is serious about using the Internet to communicate with voters, and which candidate considers online contact an…
Public agitation over the proposed Deep Borehole Field Test didn’t just boot the proposed engineering experiment from Spink County; it killed the whole project. Two weeks ago, a…
I don’t know when Congresswoman Kristi Noem last held a public town hall, but the woman who wants to replace her, Rep. Paula Hawks from Hartford, is…
That Sioux Falls paper lost an open-records case yesterday. Last year, Division of Banking director Bret Afdahl reversed prior practice and declined to make public the…
Mercer pitches, Krebs swings! Pierre political reporter Bob Mercer complained last weekend that South Dakota’s campaign finance laws gives PACs and unchallenged or inactive campaign committees too much…
The South Dakota Open Meetings Commission ruled unanimously yesterday that Deadwood mayor Chuck Turbiville and commissioners David Ruth, Jr., and Jim Van Den Eykel held an illegal…